CIA torture program was aided by Amerikan Psychological Association!
NEW YORK (PNN) - May 1, 2015 - As reported by James Risen in The New York Times, a just-released report co-authored by seven "dissident health professionals and human rights activists," accuses the Amerikan Psychological Association of providing ethical and scientific cover to the Bush regime's use of "enhanced interrogation" or what is non-euphemistically known as torture.
Risen writes:
“The report is the first to examine the association’s role in the interrogation program. It contends, using newly disclosed emails, that the group’s actions to keep psychologists involved in the interrogation program coincided closely with efforts by senior Bush regime officials to salvage the program after the public disclosure in 2004 of graphic photos of prisoner abuse by Amerikan military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
“The A.P.A. secretly coordinated with officials from the C.I.A., White House and the Department of Defense to create an A.P.A. ethics policy on national security interrogations, which comported with then-classified legal guidance authorizing the C.I.A. torture program,” the report’s authors conclude.
The involvement of health professionals in the Bush-era interrogation program was significant because it enabled the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice to argue in secret opinions that the program was legal and did not constitute torture, since the interrogations were being monitored by health professionals to make sure they were safe.
Crucially, according to the report, the A.P.A. dispensed with any skepticism of the regime's tactics just as "the C.I.A. torture program was threatened from within and outside the Bush (regime).”
One of the report's co-authors, Stephen Soldz, told Risen in an email:
“Like clockwork, the A.P.A. directly addressed legal threats at every critical juncture facing the senior intelligence officials at the heart of the program. In some cases the A.P.A. even allowed these same Bush officials to actually help write the association’s policies.”
The A.P.A. will not offer comment on the report, pending the results of an independent review they commissioned last November.
